High
Security advisory
A flaw was found in, Fedora versions of krb5 from 1.16.1 to, including 1.17.x, in the way a Kerberos client could crash the KDC by sending one of the RFC 4556 "enctypes". A remote unauthenticated user could use this flaw to crash the KDC.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-14844
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in, Fedora versions of krb5 from 1.16.1 to, including 1.17.x, in the way a Kerberos client could crash the KDC by sending one of the RFC 4556 "enctypes". A remote unauthenticated user could use this flaw to crash the KDC.
osv:CVE-2019-14844
Complete source record
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N4LS5PIJOCNOUZGLO2OBT6GY334PUOSW/",
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